Beat Furrer and Esbjerg Ensemble at SPOR festival

Tue, 12/05/2009 - 13:20

	As the very first project within RE:NEW MUSIC, the Danish festival SPOR presented a thrilling afternoon Concert with music by the Austrian composer Beat Furrer on Saturday May 9th. After the concert, the curator and Danish composer Bent Sørensen, hosted an artist talk with Furrer about his work overall, with specific attention to Furrer's way of integrating the human voice and the sounds of everyday life into his music and musical thinking. Beat Furrer conducted the Esbjerg ensemble in a concert focusing on Furrer's chamber music, with Neue Vocalsolisten soprano Susanne Leitz-Lorey as soloist in the two works Aria and Lotofagos I, the latter with double bass player Ryutaro Hei from the Radio Sinfonie Orchester Stuttgart des SWR. He also played the solo part in the work from 2008, Xenos, which is part of the works Beat Furrer is composing for the Ensemble Modern and their project I-N-T-O focusing on the sound of the city, with Furrer being commissioned to focus on Istanbul. The Esbjerg Ensemble also performed "Still" from the late nineties. Originally written for Klangforum Wien, this piece was chosen by Klangforum to be part of RE:NEW. After the concert, the Spor Festival's 2009 curator, Danish composer Bent Sørensen, hosted an artist talk with Furrer about his work overall, with specific attention to Furrer's way of integrating the human voice and the sounds of everyday life into his music and musical thinking. Here, Furrer's music theatre piece FAMA from 2005 was used as an example of how Furrer's works to exlopre the possibilities of new approaches to the inside and outside of sound, with an "aural" room being specifically designed for the world premiere of this piece at the Donaueschingen festival. FAMA has also been chosen by Klangforum Wien for the RE:NEW MUSIC project, and is planned for a performance within the network in 2010. The Danish festival SPOR 2009 was held on 7, 8, 9 May in the city of Aarhus. Music was let loose in the city-space and the three festival days offered street criers, works in the city-space, a Georgian male choir and much more. SPOR 2009 was curated by the danish composer Bent Sørensen. With the human voice and public city-space as a point of departure, Sørensen put together a program with both promising young and internationally recognized composers from Denmark and abroad. SPOR 2009 offered the possibility of hearing some of the major contemporary composers such as Georges Aperghis (Gr/Fr), Beat Furrer (Au), Helmut Oehring (D) as well as a range of young and talented names such as Erik Bünger, Niels Rønsholdt and Christian Winther Christensen. Neue Vocalsolisten (D), Rustavi Choir (Ge), FIGURA (DK), Esbjerg Ensemble (DK), SCENATET (DK), Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, Jakob Kullberg and Loré Lixenberg amongst others made this year's festival a truly enchanting experience. www.sporfestival.dk. See more photos from the event here

As the very first project within RE:NEW MUSIC, the Danish festival SPOR presented a thrilling afternoon Concert with music by the Austrian composer Beat Furrer on Saturday May 9th. After the concert, the curator and Danish composer Bent Sørensen, hosted an artist talk with Furrer about his work overall, with specific attention to Furrer's way of integrating the human voice and the sounds of everyday life into his music and musical thinking.

Beat Furrer conducted the Esbjerg ensemble in a concert focusing on Furrer's chamber music, with Neue Vocalsolisten soprano Susanne Leitz-Lorey as soloist in the two works Aria and Lotofagos I, the latter with double bass player Ryutaro Hei from the Radio Sinfonie Orchester Stuttgart des SWR. He also played the solo part in the work from 2008, Xenos, which is part of the works Beat Furrer is composing for the Ensemble Modern and their project I-N-T-O focusing on the sound of the city, with Furrer being commissioned to focus on Istanbul. The Esbjerg Ensemble also performed "Still" from the late nineties. Originally written for Klangforum Wien, this piece was chosen by Klangforum to be part of RE:NEW.
After the concert, the Spor Festival's 2009 curator, Danish composer Bent Sørensen, hosted an artist talk with Furrer about his work overall, with specific attention to Furrer's way of integrating the human voice and the sounds of everyday life into his music and musical thinking.

Here, Furrer's music theatre piece FAMA from 2005 was used as an example of how Furrer's works to exlopre the possibilities of new approaches to the inside and outside of sound, with an "aural" room being specifically designed for the world premiere of this piece at the Donaueschingen festival.

FAMA has also been chosen by Klangforum Wien for the RE:NEW MUSIC project, and is planned for a performance within the network in 2010.

The Danish festival SPOR 2009 was held on 7, 8, 9 May in the city of Aarhus. Music was let loose in the city-space and the three festival days offered street criers, works in the city-space, a Georgian male choir and much more. SPOR 2009 was curated by the danish composer Bent Sørensen.

With the human voice and public city-space as a point of departure, Sørensen put together a program with both promising young and internationally recognized composers from Denmark and abroad. SPOR 2009 offered the possibility of hearing some of the major contemporary composers such as Georges Aperghis (Gr/Fr), Beat Furrer (Au), Helmut Oehring (D) as well as a range of young and talented names such as Erik Bünger, Niels Rønsholdt and Christian Winther Christensen.

Neue Vocalsolisten (D), Rustavi Choir (Ge), FIGURA (DK), Esbjerg Ensemble (DK), SCENATET (DK), Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, Jakob Kullberg and Loré Lixenberg amongst others made this year's festival a truly enchanting experience. www.sporfestival.dk.

See more photos from the event here

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